Sears told to destroy data gathered by online tracking software US retailer Sears has been ordered to destroy all the customer data it collected from a piece of online tracking software that consumer regulator the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said was unfairly used. The FTC said that while customers had been warned that, once downloaded, software would track their browsing, it had in …
"Sears paid some visitors to sears.com and kmart.com $10 to participate in a scheme to monitor their browsing via "research software"."
But who is really that interested in the browsing habits of people that stupid and that desperate for $10? I mean, I could understand the value of collecting data from cash rich, discerning browsers. But all they've got here is a heap of info on foolish poor folk. Not exactly a prized market.
Google the above for a real eyeful of just how vile and anti-consumer this company is.
Low quality merchandise, lousy customer support, worthless "warranties", incompetent bookkeeping, predatory credit practices, Sears is a poster child for everything that is WRONG with business.
Karl Marx would have been vindicated.
Why we don't regulate the daylights out of companies treatment of their customers, business or consumer, till they squeal with pain and blood starts to flow? Oh yeah, corruption, I forgot.
They should have been fined a tenner for each and every piece of information on every customer that went beyond "reasonable" and banned from collecting any data at all for 5 years. maybe the others would think twice.
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